UTD’s Cecil Lecture Series To Feature
Speaker On Medicine and Health Care Costs

Callahan To Give Talk on
Nov. 12

RICHARDSON, Texas (Nov. 8, 2001) - The Andrew R. Cecil Lecture Series
continues at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) next with a talk
about the at-times competing tensions between medical progress and
health care costs.

For the lecture, Dr. Daniel Callahan, director of international
programs at The Hastings Center in Garrison, New York, will speak about
“Medical Progress and Health Care Costs: A Clash of Values” on
Monday, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m., also at UTD’s Conference Center
Auditorium. Callahan’s lecture will raise fundamental ethical
questions about the nature of medical progress and what is good for
society. Callahan will be present at a reception immediately following
the talk.

Callahan is co-founder of The Hastings Center, the oldest
independent, nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research institute of its
kind in the world. The Hastings Center addresses fundamental ethical
issues in the areas of heath, medicine and the environment as they
affect individuals, communities and societies.

Callahan currently serves as the center’s director of international
programs. He previously served as the organization’s director and
president from 1969 to 1996. He is an elected member of the Institute of
Medicine within the National Academy of Sciences and is member of the
Director’s Advisory Committee at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, where he also is a member of its ethics committee. Most
recently, Callahan served as an advisor to President George W. Bush on
the topic of stem cell research. Dr. Callahan holds a Ph.D. in
philosophy from Harvard University and a B.A. from Yale University.

About the Andrew R. Cecil Lecture Series

In 1979, The University
of Texas at Dallas
established the lecture series in collaboration with Dr. Andrew R.
Cecil, a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at UTD. Cecil delivered the
first lecture in November 1979 and spoke in each subsequent series until
his death in 1996.

The lectures are a reflection of the interests of Cecil, including
his moral reasoning, philosophical principles, commitment to justice and
freedom, love for education, search for political and religious
reasoning and quest for a better understanding of universal ethical
values.

In the 22 years since Cecil’s first lecture, UTD has invited to its
campus scholars, business professionals, public officials and other
notable individuals to share their ideas about themes related to those
subjects with the academic community and the general public.

All Cecil Lectures are free and open to the public. For additional
information, please call972-883-2590.

About UTD

The University of Texas at Dallas, located at the convergence of
Richardson, Plano and Dallas in the heart of the complex of major
multinational technology corporations known as the Telecom Corridor,
enrolls more than 7,000 undergraduate and 5,000 graduate students. The
school’s freshman class traditionally stands at the forefront of Texas
state universities in terms of average SAT scores. The university offers
a broad assortment of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree
programs. For additional information about UTD, please visit the
university’s Web site at www.utdallas.edu.